Comments on: More Indications McCain Could Announce Vice Presidential Pick Thursday Night

By: enchantedland

enchantedland — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:56:49 +0000

If McCain picks Lieberman, this Independent might actually be tempted to vote for him!

By: DLS

DLS — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:40:35 +0000

The media will stay on the Obama campaign. Oh, Fox may be an exception but the worst they likely will do is just voice-over the Obama speech, which they should be covering, to announce McCain's choice; the others probably will not and not even introduce the subject until after the commentary is complete after the Obama speech. Fox might just run a little text bar along the bottom of the screen if McCain actually did make a VP announcement then.

By: DLS

DLS — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:36:43 +0000

McCain may still persist given he is the default no-Obama and lib-Dem candidate.

He has two real choices, Dave in Boca, though Romney is the obvious up-front choice to make (analogous to Obama-Clinton in a sense), the "numbers" choice.

The real choices are -- get a real conservative as VP to look truly different than the Dems, or go with Lieberman to seek the swing voters and appeal to Clinton voters who still don't like Obama. This seems actually the weaker of the two choices. (At least we have a safe and sane foreign policy with Lieberman as well as with most conservatives.)

Meanwhile, after Hillary Clinton's poor speech, I look forward (with some suspicion) to Bill Clinton's speech and especially to Joe Biden's speech. (If they fail to attack the GOP in earnest, this convention really is shallow and fluffy and all about the Obama Nuremberg Night grand finale.)

By: daveinboca

daveinboca — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:17:28 +0000

"Considering that McCain has no chance of winning"

Boy, I'd like to get ahold of the weed this dude is ten tokes over the line on.

If McCain looks again at the Quinnipiac poll in April that had him and Condi winning NY State over either Hillary or BHO by FIVE POINTS, he may announce Rice on Thursday night. New York going Repub, that would stick it to the Dems.

Lieberman is a great trump over Biden's garrulous Gabby Hayes vibe. Joe has a moral integrity that the hair-plug plagiarist can't match. Google will be used to find which speeches Joe "borrowed" from every time he says something half-way sensible.

And Mitt Romney actually met a payroll. Imagine an actual successful executive in the White House! Hasn't happened since Ike---political hacks ever since. [Carter went bankrupt on his peanut farm.]

By: GeorgeSorwell

GeorgeSorwell — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:57:10 +0000

Just like it can't be Leiberman because he's Jewish, it can't be Romney because he's Mormon.

By: DLS

DLS — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:07:59 +0000

McCain-Clinton 2008!

Well, maybe not, but it would be amusing.

By: mgultch

mgultch — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:04:03 +0000

I hope he pulls a woman VP out of a hat and surprises everyone. That would be interesting. I am just not feeling it with Mitt. http://www.bop-o-rama.com

By: Lynx

Lynx — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:53:26 +0000

I’m afraid that it’s simply too much to hope for that Lieberman gets chosen as the VP nominee. People forget that Lieberman is socially quite liberal. He’s also an orthodox Jew (how he fits both together is beyond me), though I wish that wasn’t a factor. James Dobson’s head would spin on his neck (it would be almost worthwhile just for that). It would anger the conservative base far more than it would excite moderates. Lieberman has the charisma of droopy dog (h/t Jon Stewart) and I suspect would motivate more Democrats to go Obama than Independents to go McCain.

I suspect it’ll be Romney, given his good economic reputation and his ability to deliver vicious insults with a perfect smile.

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By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:39:08 +0000

I had been hoping for Joementum (Lieberman not Biden) it's like manna from heaven. Besides the legal headaches the McCain camp is going to have just getting Lieberman on the ballot, it's going to cut off funding at it's knees.

One thing that is good for Republicans, if McCain actually wins with Joe he gives the right wing nuts a big FU, I don't need you to win. It might actually be the path back to sanity. (Although the 100 years in Iraq and Iran and Georgia have some pretty hefty drawbacks.)

By: superdestroyer

superdestroyer — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:34:20 +0000

Considering that McCain has no chance of winning and that the Republican party will not be around much longer, does it really matter what it does.

Does anyone think that a political party that wants to sell itself as the small government aprty and who just renominate Ted Stevens for the Senate will be irrelevant even in 2009?

By: RevDave

RevDave — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:17:54 +0000

What a class act that John McCain is!! Can't you just smell the bi-partisanship?